For Local Health Departments

Local health departments work to improve the health of people and communities in North Carolina. Support resources that the division provides to health departments include generalized nursing consultation, administrative consultation, and accreditation.

Data Links

Data is made available for each calendar year and may be released early.

The 2018 County Health Data Book is to be used for the assessments conducted during 2018 and due in 2019. For the CHA due in 2019, data from the 2018 County Health Data Book (generally 2016 data) is considered current.
Newer reports in the County Health Book include:

The NC Division of Public Health Approved Provider Unit (APU) serves NC Public Health Nurses by providing continuing education in the form of evidence-based Continuing Nursing Education (CNE). The APU sits in the Public Health Nursing and Professional Development Unit. The APU provides high-quality, evidence-based continuing education that is timely and relevant to current public health nursing practice. Educational activities provided by the APU are developed primarily to meet the educational needs of NC Public Health Nurses. However, we know that Public Health Nurses do not work in a vacuum. Therefore, our courses and content areas often meet the educational needs of other public health staff, including Advanced-Practice Practitioners (NPs and PAs), physicians, and other public health professionals. The APU works independently and also partners with public, private, academic, and other public health practice entities to jointly provide CNE.

Contact

"Principles and Practices of Public Health Nursing" Course

This course is mandated by administrative rule to be completed within the first year of hire for any associate degree or diploma-prepared RN hired by a local health department. It is recommended for any RN that is new to NC Public Health. The course is offered twice a year -- in the spring and fall. Course registration is handled by the NC Institute for Public Health at UNC-CH Gillings School of Global Public Health and e-mail announcements are sent to each local health department prior to each course.

This presentation provides updated PH law information regarding confidentiality with the adolescent client. HIPAA terms, PHI and treating a minor as an individual are addressed in the lecture. Two special challenges are addressed: 1. Mandatory reporting for adults and minors including laws and "cause to suspect" followed by case studies; 2. Human Trafficking is defined, reporting to law enforcement, and prevention of imminent threats. The last area covered in the webinar is adolescents and electronic health records information related to patient portals and information exchange.

Identify circumstances requiring reports of adolescents to child protective services. The recorded webinar, survey and CNE are available from February 19 - October 17, 2018.

Disclosures: Viewing of the entire educational activity and completion of an online participant roster and evaluation are required to receive 1.5 CNE credit. The Public Health Nursing and Professional Development Unit, North Carolina Division of Public Health, is approved as a provider of continuing nursing education by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The planner and presenter have no conflict of interests and have not received any financial support for any part of the planning of this presentation.

The new PHN Dispensing Training is now available below. PHN&PDU is no longer offering continuing education credits in association with the training. Your pharmacist may use these materials for training, but you will need to issue your own certificate of completion and maintain your own attendance and training agenda records for Accreditation and the Board of Pharmacy. Please continue to send a copy of the attendance roster to the office PHN&PDU each time a training is offered in your agency.

Coding and Billing Resources

Documentation Guidelines - The following documents provide general principles of evaluation and management (E/M) documentation, common sets of codes used to bill for E/M services, and E/M services providers.